Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 27 Jul 2026

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07/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:47:11

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. The Guardian (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
6	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
9	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
11	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
12	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
14	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
17	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
18	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
19	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
20	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
25	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
26	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
29	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
30	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
34	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
35	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
36	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
37	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
43	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
44	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
46	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
47	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
48	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
61	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
62	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
66	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
67	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
68	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
69	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
70	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
71	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
72	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
73	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
74	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
75	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
76	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
77	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
83	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
84	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
85	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
86	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
88	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
90	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
91	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
92	Truth or Demons Podcast	Stevi	Society & Culture	59	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
94	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
95	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
96	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
97	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
98	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
99	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
100	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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